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04 Mar 2015 7:06:10am

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How exactly does "heat" sink into the cold of the oceans ?

Even primary school children know "heat" rises not only in the air but also in every known liquid on the planet.

The reality is the "super" El-Nino of the late 90's released a significant amount of energy into the atmosphere which has been slowly dissipating to space over the last 15 or so years due to the low radiating power of gasses. The next couple also released energy to the atmosphere though considerably less.

The recent increase in rainfall and other precipitation - such as snow - reported globally in recent years proves cooling is occuring - water vapour releases its latent heat high in the atmosphere upon condensation and this energy quickly escapes to space.

If it is true that only greenhouse gases radiate infra-red radiation as climate scientists claim then there is no climate mystery - only a few percent of the atmosphere actually cools the Earth - this is what the IPCC say is settled science - no wonder the energy takes a long time to go away.

But if this is true then Oxygen and Nitrogen are the "true" heat trapping gases - heated by contact with the surface - you can't deny they get heated else you believe they do not contribute to the air temperature and that is absurd - then heated by contact with the Earth's surfaces the only way 99% of the atmosphere can shed that energy to space is by transfer to the GHGs - the ones that radiate.

It is difficult to see why increasing the only atmospheric cooling agent's concentration is going to cause runaway heating.

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